Jeff Johnson wrote:
> Looks like rpm-4.4.9 was busted wrto network downloads, but
> perhaps I deliberately changed. The issue of rpm accessing
> a networks is somehow controversial even 7+ years later.
>
> Adding an explicit "r.ufdio" is as good as the other fix,
> changing the default to make rpmio always network aware.
> I still haven't identified why ftp access works on rpm-4.5,
> but not in rpm-4.4.9, but I doubt its a solaris peculier issue.

I'm quite happy with the quick fix at this point that's for sure. We use 
the feature quite often in conjunction with network installs, so broken 
network support was a big problem. I'm glad to see that at least we can 
patch around it even if default support isn't decided. I'll look at the 
other fix you suggested and maybe just set it globally.... don't want 
your whiplash to get any worse ;)

>
> I'd suggest spending some time upgrading to rpm-4.5 as well. There should
> be very very few surprises, and there were some significant cleanups wrto
> removing void ** casts and more.
>

I was under the impression that 4.5 was still under development since 
there hadn't been a full release, but if ftp is functional out of the 
box I'll definitely check it out and throw it on our test machines while 
waiting for a stable release. Are you planning to release a 4.5 stable 
at this point or are you shooting right for 5.0? Just something I've 
been wondering... I'm working towards a complete conversion of our 
network for whenever 4.5 or 5 hits.

> Still no idea what the EPASV vs PASV problem root cause is.

Is this actually a problem on your end? We are fairly certain that our 
L4 is choking on the EPSV NAT translation vs. the more common PASV, so 
this might not actually be an rpm issue, unless you saw something 
otherwise. It looks like Tim was experiencing the same ufdio/fdio issue 
and hadn't gotten to any FTP transfers (hence his mention of ftpdebug 
not working). Jeff, you might have just tipped us off on a networking 
issue specific to our case, which I thank you for ;) hah.

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David Halik
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